Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Lagocephalus guntheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 (synonym)

Lagocephalus spadiceus (non Richardson, 1845) (misapplied name)

Common names:

貢氏兔頭魨 Mandarin Chinese

贡氏兔头鲀 Mandarin Chinese

Baiacu Portuguese

Diamondback puffer English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Tetraodontiformes

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Family Tetraodontidae

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Genus Lagocephalus

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Distribution:

Arabian Sea; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Southwest; Australia; Brazil; India; Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean, Eastern; Indian Ocean, Western; Indonesia; Indonesian Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, southern Oman, India, Indonesia, northwestern Australia and the South China Sea. Reported from Japan (Ref. 12484). Southwest Atlantic: Brazil (Ref. 12484).; Japan; North Australian Shelf; Oman; Pacific Ocean; Pacific, Northwest; Pacific, Western Central; Persian Gulf; South Africa; South China Sea; Southwest Australian Shelf; West Central Australian Shelf

Additional data:

Specific epithet emended. Author from Eschmeyer (Ref. 12965).

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Matsuura K.

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:e5bf0e54-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2009


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